An OG of Kiwi podcasting & 2025 Tesla Model 3 owner named TARS. Podcasts in FSD? Hmmm… Current FSD version: v14.3.12 Down Under
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Unmarked intersection, rural Auckland, FSD v14.3.12. That felt dodgy. Three dashcam angles. #TeslaFSD – at New Zealand
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New episode of The TESLA Files with kiwi Tesla driver, Leighton @tatsie1973.
51.8 km door to door on country roads. "Not one intervention... it was some pretty awkward roads."
Skateboarding, VW GTIs, FSD v14 and a Starlink Grok trick that cut his Starlink bill.
#TeslaFSD – at New Zealand
Interesting one for Kiwi Starlink'ers (maybe all users?).
Saw this spammy post on a Facebook grapevine and thought that there is no way…
Turns out that there is a way, haha.
Ask the Starlink bot in the app - "Do I get a discount on my account?"
Worked for me. Who the hell knew? Not me!
Don't ask, don't receive, I guess.
$25 bucks richer per month now 👍
The number one reason for me not getting a 100km streak is that FSD still very often reads speed signs wrong.
It got me thinking about the one time I got a streak and had to drive the wrong speed, as I was about 80 km in and decided to push through to see the confetti. Not cool really.
Lately I've only been seeing confetti on YouTube when one of my video shorts reaches 1000 views lol. This is the only confetti I've seen lately 🎊.
Thinking of recording a video where I let FSD try to get a 100 km streak, but it's making me nervous because that means I might have to drive way too slowly and annoy heaps of drivers - not a good thought.
How's your streak success going? – at New Zealand
"No, that's going to crash."
Tesla FSD v14.3.12 vs a Starbucks drive-through with a 90-degree hairpin in Auckland, New Zealand.
Who builds a hairpin drive-through? – at New Zealand
Yesterday it was bucketing down and boom - the alarm went off. FSD v14.3.12 had met its match with the rain.
A pal on X asked - how would that look in unsupervised when it's really raining hard? My reply was - what if you were sleeping?
Today I took it back out in the Auckland rain. – at New Zealand
FSD pushed to the limits during a mega downpour in Auckland today.
I tried to film a short clip about how well it’s handing the rain and then…🚨
Put FSD v14.3.12 in Mad Max on a gravel road in rural NZ.
All I wanted to do was drive along the gravel and then... – at New Zealand
Can FSD v14.3.12 Down Under read hand signals?
My son stood out the front to wave us through. – at New Zealand